The Necromancers

It all began with a notorious group called the Necromancers. The Necromancers were once very wise and noble men (& women) who embraced the practices of communicating with dead, channeling spirits, and reviving the deceased. The teachings of necromancy flourished for nearly a hundred years, but complications with their teachings began to a raise as the world (& it's inhabitants) grew and developed. One of these complications was the Church, and it's members who were both devoted and loyal to god. The beliefs of the Necromancers and the Church clashed. The world was changing, and though the Necromancers had seniority over the Church, the Church was gaining the favor of the people. The beliefs of the Church had become widespread and over the years more people had become accustom to accepting change. With the majority of the people siding with the Church, who didn't approve with the practices of the Necromancers, the group was basically shunned from society unless they ceased their practices. Rejected from the world the era of the necromancy had come to an end, and the group slowly faded into the shadows like their teachings had.

This did not stop the shunned group from their practices or beliefs. The Necromancers had become separated all over the world, but the group still maintained communication. The members had arrange on a specific day every 10 years for the group to meet back up, October 31st, at the tribal village of Umbala. Unfortunately when the group had met in Umbala for a second time trouble made it's self present in the group. The group instead of preforming their scared practice on the most spiritually active day, October 31st, they were caught up in an intense debate. Over the time span from the first meeting to the second a good portion of the Necromancers had become filled with anger. They wanted to be a part of society once again without having to hide or keep their practices/beliefs secret. The Necromancers were equally split with two opposing views: one half wanted to remain happily in hiding while the other half wanted to take drastic actions to earn their place in society back. The debate continued later into the day, and the results were disastrous.

The group of Necromancers ended up splitting up, on November 1st, one half dispersed back into hiding while the other departed wholly in a group. The group which had left as a whole traveled safely and unnoticed to Yuno. The group stayed in Yuno for roughly a week researching through the massive library Yuno had to offer. The objective was to find means of power they could obtain strength from in order to make up for the other missing half of the Necromancers. The group found a bunch of things which could grant them great power, but the greatest of all was a myth about a creature that was beneath the Thief town, Morroc. Information on this creature was scarce, but apparently nothing matched it in strength and could kill it (which is why it had been sealed). Sealing the book they had read the information about the creature they departed from the town, taking the airship, the group made it safely to Morroc. Four weeks passed and surprisingly the group had found out more about the creature through local legends/myths told by the citizens. Apparently the town possessed five seals which sealed the creature beneath the town. They had even gotten some garbage about the five seals forming a cross, but the group discarded the information out of hatred for the Church. They were getting closer and closer to uncovering the mystery with each passing day until finally one day something clicked among them.

The answers they'd search for had been right under their noses the whole time. A reliable story they had heard helped them conclude that four of the seals had to be North, South, East, and West town entrances/exits. Remember the rubbish they had heard about the seal forming a cross lead the group concluded that the fifth seal had to be in the center of the town. It is unknown how the group got beneath the town, but some how they did and what soon came after would surely change history. Around mind day an ominous wind blew into Morroc; the sun setting behind raging storm clouds, with lightning striking the ground, and thunder shaking the very heavens above the citizens of Morroc who cowered in their homes not daring to venture outdoors. A tempest raged out in the desert to the East, while the black circling clouds settled directly over Morroc Castle. The guards in the castle took the prisoners and fled from the center of the storm, just before the ground began quaking from deep beneath the city. The creature, Satan Morroc, erupted up from underneath the castle, rending the castle and nearly razing the entire town to the ground. Citizens fled to the Morroc Ruins to the North West to escape it's wrath. For several hours it laid waste to Morroc city, troops and heroes from all across the globe journeyed with haste to Morroc to slay the awakened Demon. The group of nercomancers acted quickly and tried all they could to control the creature, but in it's rage/fury it attacked them. The group struggled with the creature, but none of them could compete with the creature's great strength. Everybody, but a member named Raiyan Moore was slain by the beast. Raiyan escaped while his brethren were slaughtered by the beast, but he didn't get far. Raiyan was apprehended by the Dandelion Organization, the Assassin Guild, and several other warriors. It is unknown what happened to Raiyan Moore, but the possibilities are endless for the predicament he had caused.

News of the monstrous creature had spread far and wide. The Assassin Guild also released the name of the creature to the public, Satan Morroc. The news stung the other half of the Necromancers who had nothing to do with the acts of the others. All hope for ever being accepted back into society had been lost with the resurrection of Satan Morroc. Spread out across the world the Necromancers bowed their head in shame not knowing that certain gods were watching the incidents unfold. Harsh and critical words began to spread among the gods of actions of complete epic proportion. Sometime passed and these words developed into a plan. A second Ragnarok was to happened. The remaining necromancers were to revive the fallen Loki to combat the resurrected Satan Morroc, and once the creature was destroyed the gods would reward the revived Loki with enough strength to overpower the necromancers, and after Loki would continue plans on his own. The remain god came forth to the remaining necromancers and demanded that they take action against Satan Morroc. That they themselves were responsible to clean up after their deceased brethren. Because the gods came off as so forceful in their demand, and the fact that they had appeared to tell them to do this act the necromancers agreed reluctantly. They informed the gods verbally that they would clean up this mess and neutralize the summoned creature, Satan Morroc. After the necromancer had verbally agreed to the task the gods left without so much as a far well which made the necromancers very nervous out of fear that they had angered them. Something was left behind by the gods though, a rather large black torn up raggy book. The group circled around it, and one picked it up. Opening the book slowly the group of necromancers were astonished to realize what the book truly was. The large old black book was a record book on burial sites — more specifically that of fallen gods, giants, and fiends (monsters). While flipping through the book though one page had been creased. All of their eyes widen at the page which had been specifically pointed out to them, on this page was the location of the Fallen Loki. It seemed to click amongst them that this was their solution. They would summon the decease Loki who would be under their control and use him to defeat Satan Morroc. The plan was verbally discussed and after an hour the group split in half. The first group went to collect the respected materials used for the revival ritual and other other half went to retrieve Loki's body. The group reformed in the town of Payon where they would prefer the ritual in the safety of the caverns of the Payon Cave.

In the cave the group began setting up for the ritual with ease since the undead in the cave paid the necromancers no mind. Loki's body was played on the ground and surround Loki was a circle drew from animal gore. Then the selected materials were placed on Loki's chest (1 Immortal Heart, 3 Carat Diamond, and 20 Decayed Nails). The Immortal Heart was to make the revived corpse immortal till decomposition, the 3 Carat Diamond was the catalyst in the ritual, and the 20 Decayed Nails represented the sands of time. In addition 15 out of 16 members were given one vial of holy water the the 16th member was given a flute. So the ritual began with the 16th member playing the flute, a wonderful melody which seemed full of life and uplifting. While the flute was played the 15 other members circled around the bloody circle and began to sing a hymn. One by one the 15 members walked up to Loki's body and pour their vial of holy water on the items placed on his chest until all 15 members had done so. After the flute player ended his tune, and when he did Loki's body became engulfed in white. Slowly the items on his chest sank inward being absorbed by Loki's body. The corpse rattled, the naked toes wrinkled, and the eye lids opened. Slowly the revived Loki leaned up to see the necromancers, but something was different. Something the necromancers weren't able to truly notice (nor the gods). This revived was so with drawn and plain in emotions that it was questionable if the ritual was successful. Little did the necromancer or the gods know that Loki's soul had passed on to a reincarnated body, and that the necromancers had summoned merely a shell of a former god. With the shell of Loki under their control the group made their way to Morroc not realize that they had exhausted most if not all of their power reviving the corpse. Arriving in Morroc after a day on foot the necromancers ran into a problem with Loki. Since they had exhausted so much of their powers their control over him diminished to almost nothing, and he began to roam around freely. Unable to do anything about this the necromancers followed Loki around, baby sitting him, praying that Satan Morroc would come to them.

Luck must of been on their side because roughly 30minutes after Loki began to roam freely the town began to rumble. Satan Morroc had been drawn to Loki's energy and with a mighty leap the giant beast cleared the wall, and land in side the town. When the beast landed the town rattled harshly causing everyone but Loki to fall. Without warning Morroc began to charge towards Loki and the necromancers. Turning swiftly Loki disarmed two of the necromancers, taking from them two over-sized pick axe like weapons crafted from special skulls. Turning back towards Satan Morroc quickly Loki jolted towards the creature — the two charging towards one another. Then the clashed, and an epic battle began to take place. Loki and Satan Morroc fought for hours — Morroc didn't seem as harmed as Loki came to be, but Loki was weakening the beast. Once the creature reached a certain point divine help became apparent. With Morroc weakened enough the gods spelled in casting spells of seals. Chains shot out from the center of the town, and wrapped around the creature. Constricting the beast's mobility and bonding it in chains. Then slowly the chains began to recall back into the black creator in the center of the town, dragging Satan Morroc along with it. In to the cold abyss Satan Morroc was dragged down into the creator until finally it disappear from sight, and moments later it's roar became absent. Over joyed the necromancer rejoiced not realizing the impact the fight had on Loki. Loki began to decompose, his skin began to die quickly turning gray, his hands beginning to wither. It wasn't until he collapsed on the floor that the necromancers noticed what the fight had done to him. Moving to the decomposed Loki there was nothing the necromancers could do so they watched as Loki died away slowly. Once he did the necromancers carried Loki's corpse to the creator and tossed it into the black abyss which Satan Morroc had disappeared down.

Never could anyone know what happen to cause the defeat of Satan Morroc. Never could the world know that Loki was revived to slay the beast or the fact that the necromancers revived Loki. So the necromancers fled Morroc leaving being the abandon town to be later repopulated for recovery. Little did they know though that out there in the world Loki's reincarnation roamed about unknown anything about his past or the events which had recently taken place